Posted on March 8, 2010 by MoneyBob
It’s time to provide some fundamental reasons as to why the dollar is in trouble long term and why the precious metals sector and the commodities sector stands to benefit from these dollar woes. The US has a massive current account deficit and it only seems to be getting bigger. Economists may play with the [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2009 by MoneyBob
Famed investor Jim Rogers is “quite sure gold will go over $2000 per ounce during this bull market.”Rogers’ confidence gold will continue to rally stems from a view the U.S. dollar is on its way to losing status as the world’s reserve currency.”Is it going to happen? Yes,” Rogers says. “I don’t like saying it [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2009 by MoneyBob
Given the Fed’s extremely easy policies, runaway government spending and shortages of many commodities, inflation pressures are building and destined to get much worse, according to famed investor Jim Rogers of Rogers Holdings.”The Federal Reserve has laid the groundwork for some serious inflation down the road by printing all this money,” Rogers says. “So have [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2009 by MoneyBob
Jim Rogers, famed investor and best-selling author, announced the start of a global commodities rally in 1999. It turned out to be a heck of call: Since then, commodities have dramatically outperformed stocks. Just this year, gold has hit record highs above $1000 per ounce, copper has nearly doubled and oil has rallied sharply off [...]
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Posted on October 8, 2009 by MoneyBob
The gold bugs are finally enjoying their moment in the sun. After 20 horrible years, in which gold dropped from $800 to $250 an ounce, the sometimes-precious metal is now roaring to all-time highs.Some folks, moreover, think this is only the beginning. Peter Schiff recently told Tech Ticker gold is headed to $5,000 an ounce.But [...]
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Posted on September 26, 2009 by MoneyBob
Unlike the “legitimate bull markets” of many foreign markets, Peter Schiff believes the U.S. is merely experiencing a “rally in a bear market,” and is lagging the rest of the world “for a reason.”The worst is not over, according to Euro Pacific Capital’s Schiff, who predicts the Dow will fall another 90% from current levels [...]
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Posted on April 20, 2009 by MoneyBob
by John Kimelman Monday, April 20, 2009 provided by The legendary investor is sticking for now with the two Cs: China and commodities. Well, bank executives and investors can breathe a sigh of relief: Jim Rogers has covered the short positions on financial stocks he put in place ahead of last year’s massive meltdown. But [...]
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Posted on October 23, 2008 by MoneyBob
“Speculative selling continues to hammer commodity prices,” wrote James Moore, an analyst at TheBullionDesk.com. Meanwhile, gold was also “under pressure as the dollar rallied.” Gold is often seen as an investment safe haven whose prices tend to rise when the economy falls into troubles, but its recent slumps have defied conventional wisdom. “The fact that [...]
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Posted on October 22, 2008 by MoneyBob
“This is just another stage of the credit crisis,” said Birinyi Associates analyst Cleveland Rueckert. “Now we’re seeing the effects in world economies of the trickle down effect of the last year and a half.” The sell-off in commodities has hit gold, oil, base metals, sugar and grains and is tied to the soaring dollar. [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2008 by MoneyBob
CNNMoney.com The bond yield tumble, and the economy Monday March 24, 7:15 am ET By Paul R. La Monica, CNNMoney.com editor at large Bond yields have plunged in the past few weeks. And even if you are not an active investor, you should care about what’s been going on in the bond markets lately. Here’s [...]
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